Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-07-13
Canadian federati ion.
At. Amboy, Ohio, 200 persons were
poisoned ~ eating Ice cream, Saturday.
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AT New York City on the 18th fou1
suicides transpired Rudolph Y. Craglet
took q dose Of Paris green and died :. Hi
wife was unfaithfui to HIM, SO he ended biz
existence Christina k,reig, forty years old,
eommltted suicide y shooting herself hel
Charles Kreig, who keeps g saloon at the
same number, awoke to find his wife dead
by has side, she having shot herself In The
LETT breast. Her husband treated her badly
Herman Steineneck, q German aged forty,
drowning In the Branch river. The cause
is not known. John Ganish, an engineer on
the Erie road, shot himself near Port arvis
His wife having gone insane he became de,
spondent. ss ,5- 90
simultaneously fire broke out in q
hotel and planning mill at Clarendon, Pa,
on the night Of the 9TH, and as q result the
village was burned and eleven hundred
driver was burned up in the ho6el. It is be.
leved the lire was set out Of revenge for the
refusal to grant liquor licenses in that Nv AZ.
ren) county. The landlord of the hotel has
been arrested on suspicion OF being engaged
in the conspiracy to burn the town. The
AOS6 d1AOuAJS w %COUsUNUS anu very llCCl0
surance was carried by the villagers,
At Weisenburg, Leigh county, Pa,
on the 7th, Zmgles church was struck by
lightning and entirely consumed; loss,
5000. Near Kutztown, that county, Peter
kline's large barn was struck by lightning
and destroyed; loss, 5000. Hundreds Of
acres OF growing corn We're washed out by
the heavy rainfall lightning set fire to dry
nm ft,0 live koSr
flames spread rapidly over 500 acres Of
timber, until extinguished by hard
work on the part of the residents of the
neighborhood. ".s Il s,<s,s (. "a
AtNew York July 8, Thos. Reilly and
Mike cGarran, living in the same house, had
a quarrel and Reilly got the worst of it. AT
midnight, Reilly, who was drunk entered
the room where Mrs McGarran was in bed
with a babe and hurled a lighted lamp at
her. which exploded and set the bed clothes
on fire and the baby was burned to death.
Cyrus w. Field, has felt constrained
by criticism upon him to address note to
the Associated Press, stating that in his re-
cent sale of $4,000 shares of Manhattan
stock to Jay Gould that gentleman acted in
q. perfectly straightforward manner, and
that Field has no intention of resigning
from the Manhattan directory. .
4" In the case of Jacob Sharp, Ludlow
St., jail, New York city it is stated that the
doctors have signed document stating
that Mr.. Sharp is suffering from valvular
disease of the heart with hypertrophy and
dilation and also from kidney affections.
The doctors say there is no hope for the
patients recovery. s.
The Burnside equestrian statue was
unveiled at Providence, r. l., July 4, and
veterans of Pennsylvania Union regiments
and of Virginia confederate soldiery met in
fraternal celebration upon the gettysburg
battle field, and reviewed the scene Of con
fict July 2, 3 and 4, twenty-four years ago.
The large toy store of p. j. Keary
& Bro, took fire Saturday evening and the
fire works it contained exploded producing
to get out and were burned in the building.
Loss $4,000; insurance nominal. 4
New Hampshire and Vermont were
considerably shaken up by earthquake
vibrations June 30, but no assures were
created and no damage done beyond stop
Ping clocks and breaking crockery. Tie
vibrations continued for 80 seconds.
The Works of Conesus Lake Salt Min
ing company at Lakeville, N. Y, at the foot
tire, including the store room in which were
stored over 5000 barrels of salt. Estimated
loss, $4,000. >'' -.
At Tonawonda, Pa, July 2, Rody
Moe an auctioneer, was shot through the
heart by r. R. Lyons, who instantly com
mitGed suicide. Both were slightly intox-
icated and had difference about money.
VIM. H. Clark, a married man, who
was separated from his family, shot himself
in fit of dependency on the sidewalk in
front of 665 Wyckof street, Brooklyn, N.
Y, where his wife lives, on the It'll.
At huntington, N. Y, on Wednesday
mad dog ran through the streets of that
village and bit Is dogs, Is of whom were
Immediately shot, and the others will be
killed at sight as found.
An explosion in the Acconite Manu-
featuring Company's works, at Arlington,
N: j., killed two persons and injured 20
others, besides doing great damageto prop
erty July T. ,> :. r-@ ,iE-#*f
The wholesale stores of Ball & Co.,
clothing, Vanderhoof & Co., straw goods
on Broadway New York city were burned
Saturday night. Loss S175,OO0.
July 2 and 8 were very hot days in
the east. On the 22nd there were thirty
cases of sun stroke in New York and vicin.
ity, six of which proved fatal. There were
Ave fatal cases at Pittsburg, Pa, July 8.
Luke P. Poland, an Ex-State Judge
and Ex-COnpressman. died at Wataryilla
Vermont, July 2, aged " years. b. :
At Dingman's Ferry, Pa, on the 9Th
man SO years Of age was stung by bee
and almost instantly died.
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
During the fiscal year just ended the
principal of the bonded debt Of the United
States decreased s127, oil, $50 and the amount
of the accrued but unpaid interest on such
debt decreased sos, 91, the decrease in GER
tificates of deposit amounted to SO, 480 0O(
and in demand notes and fractional curren.
cy to 81, 438. During the same period there
was an increase Of $69, 1S2,s54 In gold and
silver certificates, and an increase Of $40,
949, 854 on the cash in the treasury showing
a net decrease in the public debt during thu
year Of SlO9, 7o7, GAG. 4. I. ..f NJ. .st
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